Over 320 people visited the Social Scaffolding art installation in Orchard Shopping Centre during Somerset Art Weeks but most did not know what to expect on entering the pop-up venue. Participants can animate Lou Baker’s Living Sculpture knitwear or relax immersed in the gentle natural outdoor soundtrack of Juliet Duckworth’s Urban Rookery before engaging with Alyson Minkley’s Synapse. This could be through conversation while stitching into the sculpture surface of simply getting inside the cosy pod for some quiet contemplation time.
The video below has been added after the Bath tour dates as a compilation of the making and piloting of Synapse as an immersive, interactive and cocreated artwork. It has been fantastic to relinquish control and allow the work to develop.